Everyone’s favourite 90s superheroes, the Power Rangers are back and with an updated big screen outing that means we’ve been shouting ‘it’s morphin’ time’ at the top of our lungs for at least the last few months.

Metro.co.uk will be bringing a review your way later this week but for now, our hopes are still high as the reviews are a mixed bag.

‘You’ve seen this origin story and world-saving saga a million times, but the quintet of charismatic leads gives life to this franchise cash-grab,’ said The Wrap’s film critic Alonso Duralde, whileForbes called it ‘a kind of Breakfast Club-meets-Chronicle mash-up that turns into Pacific Rim’ which, not gonna lie, really excites us.

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Set for release in the UK on Friday March 24, the new film will be an origins story that focuses on five teenagers brought together to save their town of Angel Grove (and the world for that matter) from alien threat.

Assembled by Bryan Cranston’s Zordon the five soon discover they have superhero abilities including super strength and the sudden ability to do perform some outstanding kung-fu moves.

The Wrap

Yes, you’ve seen this origin story and world-saving saga a million times, but the quintet of charismatic leads gives life to this franchise cash-grab… This quintet of actors is so empathetic and engaging that they more than hold up the John Hughes end of the movie – The Wrap

The Hollywood Reporter

Whether they’re dealing with bullying, alienation or peer pressure, these teens are more three-dimensional than their Ranger predecessors, but eventually this repetitive effort to emphasize their relatability becomes so heavy-handed as to appear transparently manipulative. Israelite, building on his experience with teen sci-fi feature Project Almanac, orchestrates a vastly more complex array of characters, action set pieces and technical resources for a combined effect that maintains dramatic tension even while teetering on the brink of excess – THR

Forbes

It does work as an engaging teen coming-of-age drama, a kind of Breakfast Club-meets-Chronicle mash-up that turns into Pacific Rim in the third act. Maybe the movie shouldn’t work, but it more or less does. It is also rooted in a nostalgia for a time when movies like this were less commonplace.’ – Forbes

CinemaBlend

Equal parts John Hughes and Justice League, Power Rangers is a campy yet enjoyable romp that honors its roots while carving out a place for this charismatic new generation of heroes that should make longtime fans and newcomers proud. – CinemaBlend

Polygon

All five main Rangers are played by relatively fresh newcomers to the scene, and there’s an enthusiasm for what they’re doing that is contagious. Their general sense of curiosity and willingness to treat the world as seriously as they can manages to make the movie feel campier, ironically, but that’s what was at the heart of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. – Polygon

Screen Daily

This more sincere big-screen version wants to honour its characters’ high-school angst while maintaining the property’s campy spirit. However, neither tone works.- Screen Daily

Variety

We’re now so awash in superhero culture that kids no longer need the safe, lame, pandering junior-league version of it. They can just watch “Ant-Man” or the PG-13 “Suicide Squad.” Safe, lame, and pandering have all grown up. – Variety

IndieWire

The film is a blast during the few brief moments when it embraces the cartoon craziness that’s made the television show into such a cultural fixture, but it sheepishly backs away from every one of these giddy indulgences as if it’s afraid of getting caught with a hand in the cookie jar – IndieWire